List of alternative shells for Windows

This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is called Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in this list do not restyle the Windows shell, but replace it; therefore, they look and function differently, and have different configuration options.

ShellSoftware licenseWindows versionsDevelopment status
3.1x9x2000XPVista7810
bbZeroGPLNoNoNoYesYesYesYesYesDiscontinued
BumpTopApache LicenseNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNoDiscontinued
CalmiraGPLYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoDiscontinued
Cairo ShellFreewareNoNoNoNoYesYesYesYesActive[1][2]
Emerge DesktopGPLNoNoYesYesYesYesNoNoDiscontinued[3]
KDE Plasma WorkspacesGPLNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNoDiscontinued on Windows[4]
LDE(X)GPLNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoDiscontinued[5]
LiteStepGPLNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesStalled[6]
Packard Bell NavigatorProprietaryYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNoDiscontinued
ReactOS ExplorerGPLNoNoNoYesYesYesYesYesActive[7][8][9]
TabWorksProprietaryYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoDiscontinued
Talisman DesktopTrialwareNoYesYesYesYesYesNoNoStalled[10][11]
UserShell Proprietary No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Active[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Github Cairoshell". Cairo Shell source code.
  2. ↑ "Cairo". Cairo Shell/Desktop website.
  3. ↑ "emergedesktop.org has shutdown". Emerge. Archived from the original on 11 May 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  4. ↑ Funk, Kevin (18 June 2016). "KDE on Windows status update". Personal Blog of Kevin Funk. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  5. ↑ phil (18 April 2007). "The road ahead is a cliff face". LDE(x) Forums. Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  6. ↑ Donelle (11 January 2017). "Re: Added .NET Framework interoperability to the core and started a c# binding library". GitHub. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "ReactOS Explorer". ReactOS Project. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "ReactOS Explorer source code". ReactOS Project. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  9. ↑ Fuchs, Martin. "ReactOS Explorer (original author, details)". Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "Talisman Desktop". LightTek Software. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  11. ↑ "Talisman Desktop News, no updates since Aug 15, 2011". LightTek Software. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  12. ↑ "Usershell". Official site. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  • Liming, Sean (August 2003). "Windows XP Embedded – Different Shells for Different Users". Microsoft Developer Network. Microsoft. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
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